“This lost gem of a play excels in placing those sublime feelings of loneliness and regret in a musical and vibrant underworld inhabited by vagrants, whores, and pious queens. Director Cosmin Chivu leads an 18-person cast in fully realizing Williams' vision.”
—Theatremania

“The stroke of mad genius in this production at the New Ohio Theatre is to cast Mink Stole, veteran of many a Waters film, and performance artist Penny Arcade as the leads.”
—Village Voice

“A magical gumbo and an evening of theatre you won’t soon forget.”
—Chelsea Now

“A dazzling production is breathing new life into Tennessee Williams’ underappreciated play, ‘The Mutilated.’ This is pure, unfiltered Williams.”
—NYC Stage Review

“The music draws you in from the time you enter the theater, and you are instantly transported to the French Quarter.”
—Off Broadway

“[Mink Stole and Penny Arcade] inhabit the scarred souls of their contrasting characters with an intuitive confidence, bringing these comic grotesques to scabrously funny life.”-Charles Isherwood, The New York Times, Critic's Pick!

"The style is kin to vaudeville, burlesque and slapstick, with a dash of pop art thrown in....[An] allegory on the tragicomic subject of human existence on this risky planet."—Tennessee Williams

One of the funniest, strangest, most neglected and most moving of Tennessee Williams’s later plays, The Mutilated takes place on Christmas Eve in New Orleans in the late 1940s. Trinket Dugan (Stole), a Texas oil heiress and cancer survivor, is hiding away at the Silver Dollar Hotel with a painful secret; and her buxom buddy Celeste Delacroix Griffin (Arcade), a vagrant, shoplifter, an over-the-hill (though always hopeful) prostitute is Trinket’s only real friend and the only person who knows her secret. But their friendship has been pushed to the limit; Celeste wants money, a free meal, a jug of California tokay wine, and takes anything she can bully, bribe or blackmail from Trinket. When Trinket finds out Celeste has humiliated her by broadcasting her secret around the Quarter, the battle is on and they fight cruelly among the singing “Quarter Rats” — con men, hookers, cops, freaks, sailors, and drunks — until they find a way to resuscitate their friendship just in time to share a mystical experience that changes their lives.